Engineer, Canadian libertarian and skeptic. Not religious, which includes the atheist, linux and woke cults :^) I block stupid.
Québec, Canada
Joined October 2014
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The world is going to shit, I feel it in my bones. Right wing, left wing, it's all bulshit. The world is turning authoritartian with millions if not billions cheering for it. Get off my lawn, every last one of you fucking retards
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Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.
It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.
I also paid $155 in sales tax.
Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.
To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.
So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).
52% went to the government in taxes.
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.
All Republicans had to do was:
1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
I submitted my buyout resignation to Microsoft today.
They rejected it.
Not because I’m so valuable.
But because I don’t work at Microsoft.
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
I’ve worked as a janitor in a massive Fortune 500 company’s headquarters for the last 25 years (nepo hire). For the first ten years I worked at the company the men’s room was always clean and easy to maintain. Worst you would get is maybe a couple of drops of piss dribble in front of the urinals from careless shakes, some shit stains in the bowls from greasy shits on the IT floor when they had been pulling all nighters and living off pizza, or soap in the counter when someone got overenthusiastic with the pump.
The women’s bathroom was always the bane of my existence because they would flush sanitary products, cause plugs, and would continue to use the plugged toilet until a mountain of shit and piss formed. That began to change about a decade ago when an Indian guy got hired in C suite, and slowly we started getting Indian managers on all floors. It started with unflushed shitters, but as more and more of them came in it steadily got worse. What used to be a gross, but ultimately low stress reasonably paying job has become a nightmare. The IT floor is the absolute worst.
They will not sit on the toilet and instead stand on the seat to squat. They frequently have explosive diarrhea, which, combined with their habit of squatting, means shit splatters on the seat, floors, and walls. They do not even attempt to clean the mess they made which means the next guy to stand and squat ends up stepping in their assblast and tracking it all over the floor when he walks out of the stall. They wipe with their hands and not the provided paper, I know this because finding shit covered handprints sliding down the walls of the stall is now a daily occurrence.
For some reason, despite not washing their hands near as I can tell, they frequently break open the soap dispenser and steal the giant bags of soap they are connected to. My team and I are the only non-IT employees who will enter the IT floor now, and the turnover is so high that I can’t get a single FNG to stay more than a month. I am considering leaving myself after a quarter century and my entire employment history being with this one company. I am in hell and it smells like feces & microwaved curry.
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
FORBIDDEN STUDIOS PRESENTS: MIGHTY ZION ORANGE RANGER 🍊⚡
Straight from the lost archives of 1995 Saturday morning television.
It's morphin' time.
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
Is there not a single person in the Administration who can quietly say to him:
“Ah, excuse me, Mr. President:
- the Canadian trade surplus with us is actually $46 billion, not $90 billion.
- their trade surplus with us is only because we buy $110 billion of oil & gas from them, and we’re getting it at a 30% discount!
- without the cheap oil we get from Canada, we run a goods & services trade surplus of $66 billion against them.
- So actually we’re “ripping off” those dumb Canadians by $66 billion, and getting their oil at bargain basement prices to boot! You should go out there and take credit! We’re winning! It’s proof that your USMCA is in fact “the single greatest trade agreement ever signed,” like you said back in 2018!
- maybe we shouldn’t push the Canadians too far, because they sell us 22% of the oil we use, and 2/3rds of the oil we import.
- even before Ukraine started that war over there by refusing to become a Russian vassal state, the Canadians were selling us ten times more oil than Russia.
- our candidates in the Northern border states are telling us that our tariffs and attacks on Canada are landing like a lead balloon.
- how about we move the focus to Communist China instead? For some reason, our voters seem to think that Canada is a friendly ally, but China is an adversary that has been screwing us over on trade for decades.
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
One day, legal migrants will either:
1. Turn this into a mosque
2. Burn it to the ground
Why?
1. Because we were afraid to be “racist.”
2. We wouldn’t tell women “no.”
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
الست الفرنسية المزهولة دي .. عضوة في حزب اليسار الفرنسي وناشطة من اكبر دعاة فتح الهجرة لشعوب شمال افريقيا وبتدافع عنهم كل مايعملوا مصيبة وكارثة وتتهم الأخرين اللي عايزين يوقفوا طوفان الهمج دول بالعنصرية ...
هي عندها محل شيك صغير في مكان راقي وقفت في محلها تحاول تنقذه من النهب والسرقة وعشان هي ناشطة مشهورة
بتقولهم انا فلانة الناشطة بتاعة اللجوء انا معاكوا انا دافعت عنكم وعن دخولكم و بقائكم في فرنسا زقوها وقعوها وداسوا عليها بأقدامهم كويس انها لسه حية
ونهبوا المحل كله الست بقت علي الحديدة خسرت كل كفاح وشغل عمرها في لحظة ..
واقفة مذهولة مش مصدقة ان اللصوص الغوغاء المجرمين البرابرة دول هما اللي طول عمرها بتدافع عنهم وعن انهم يغزوا بلدها ويخربوه
عشان شهرتها في الدفاع عن لاجئين شمال افريقيا كل الميديا الفرنسية امبارح جايبة قصتها وصورتها قدام محلها المنهوب شقي عمرها كله وهي مش مصدقة مدي غبائها اللي وصل فرنسا للخراب والدمار ده كله 😢
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
Cutting off Starlink is a warning about our F35 purchase. We need a platform that is immune to the whims of our southern neighbours. Gripens now.
NEW: Ukrainian troops have been caught off guard by restrictions on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet systems that disrupted frontline operations, as Kyiv received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian missile attack on its energy facilities for the second day running, Ukrainian officials and troops tell @FT.
ft.com/content/37085602-726a…
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
🇺🇸🇺🇦 All this propaganda is false.
The goal is to hide the Iran war’s failures.
🔸 Oil prices have risen 45% since the Iran war began.
🔸 US diesel prices were already below their 2022 peaks before the Iran war.
🔸 The current energy crisis is a consequence of the Iran war, not Ukraine.
Exploiting a country at war, where civilians are dying, to cover up your own failures is an absolute disgrace.
Neither Americans nor Europeans will believe this ridiculous propaganda.
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
Apparently Stelco is not fulfilling existing domestic orders for rolled steel……. While laying off workers.
Both Cascadia and Honda have been trying to buy product, but Cleveland Cliffs CEO is rejecting the orders.
This is politics, not business.
ctvnews.ca/video/2026/10/09/…
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
The first russian diesel shipment for the US is arriving on the east coast less than 24 hours after Trump announces deal with a war criminal Putin.
The MINERVA ZEN left St. Petersburg, russia on September 22nd and appears to have been heading for the US East Coast all along.
This means that Trump betrayed Ukraine around the same time he signed the Graham sanction bill AGAINST russia.
That’s the highest level of cynicism.
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
So Trump's "deal" with Russia is to:
-pay Russia to import diesel (which won't lower energy costs)
-so that they can take the money and bomb Ukraine
-and use it to help Iran bomb Americans and our allies
Why are we here? Because House Republicans refused to let us vote on a stronger sanctions bill. Instead, they passed an optional one, and this is the result.
We need new leadership in Congress FAST.
Lee Patekar 🇨🇦 retweeted
Can Ukraine Burn Refineries Without America?
On Friday, Donald Trump announced a deal with Putin to buy Russian diesel, and within hours his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in Miami telling the Ukrainians that if they keep striking Russian oil refineries, Washington may stop sharing intelligence. That is according to the Financial Times, which also reports that the Ukrainian team cut its trip short and promised to carry on burning them anyway.
So can they? The short answer is yes, only less elegantly. A refinery is the size of a small town and has not moved since Brezhnev built it, so Ukraine does not need the CIA to find one. The drones are Ukrainian, the target lists are Ukrainian, and Kyiv was setting fire to Russian oil plants long before Washington started helping.
Europe can fill, since France has always insisted its intelligence is its own to share, and commercial radar satellites from firms like Finland's ICEYE are already in Ukrainian hands.
The real danger lies elsewhere. If Washington also switches off early warning of Russian missile launches, as it did for eight days in March 2025, Ukrainians will die in their beds so that American diesel can cost a little less.
